New Delhi, India.
The Serum Institute of India, the largest manufacturer of world vaccines, send on Tuesday your first batch of anticovid-19 vaccines for the global inoculation program Covax.
The acquisition effort i equitable distribution of vaccines worldwide aims to ensure the vaccines for at least the 20% of the population month vulnerable in each country.
Covax, led by the World Health Organization and the GAVI alliance, reached agreements with manufacturers for 2 billion doses in 2021 and has the option of others 1 billion.
this includes 1.1 billion doses of the Serum Institute, Which produces vaccines AstraZeneca and Novavax.
The WHO of Southeast Asia tweeted photos of the first shipments loaded on a truck at the Serum manufacturing facility in Put, in the west of India.
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Serum has already supplied the Indian government with millions of doses of the serum AstraZeneca, as well as in other countries poorer.
The director of the company, Adar Poonawalla, on Sunday urged other countries to be “Patients”, Claiming that it had been instructed to prioritize its domestic market over the exports.